User talk:Swampyank

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I had to chuckle at the troll under the bridge edit I made to your Paul's Bridge entry. Sorry to leave that little bit of graffiti, but I promise to you that I improved the entry. I was looking at the nomination form while I wikied it, and decided to add to your entry. I am currently an intern for the DCR at Boston and I am filing firsthand documents such as the one I referenced in the article. I did in fact explain the historical significance of the name, something I would encourage anyone to do when writing anything of historical merit. I also thought the boundary explanation was a bit too conversational, so I hope my embellishment is appreciated. Thanks for creating the entry, best wishes. 146.243.4.157 (talk) 20:10, 16 March 2011 (UTC)Kevin[reply]

Thanks for adding and sourcing the article. Swampyank (talk) 03:52, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, my name is Patrick de Friberg the french-canadian writer. In your page, you wrote "The Fairbanks House (1636-1640) is the oldest timber frame house in North America". I am living in the oldest one, near Quebec city, built in 1608-1610. In 1652, when Sir Bertrand de la Garenne bought the place, he found "a solid ruin with a 5ft stone fireplace. In 1764, the captain Cazaux built a second stage. You can see pictures in my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=817&id=1604288524&l=29c3a9c9a8 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.20.86.120 (talk) 22:31, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the category before I read the entire article. I think he would be considered an alleged Presidential child, at least for now. It is very interesting though and even more interesting if true. It deserves investigation. Tyler was quite the baby maker! Jjmillerhistorian 23:32, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great adds to the Bates College article, thanks! Lostvalley 03:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - I see that you posted an example of a JD cert from Suffolk - my son just enrolled at Suffolk for the fall summester, and I wondered if you might be able to give us some pointers to life and acedemia at suffolk law school - contact me at [email protected], if you're able. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.166.171 (talk) 22:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Are you related to Suffolk in anyway? Feel free to email me. Yanksox 18:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I figured that. I think I'm going to try to see Bamford and Carrol speak, it looks good. Yanksox 20:26, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editor, I've noticed your contributions to the Providence, Rhode Island article. I've just nominated it for Featured Article status. FA page is here. Your feedback and assistance would be greatly appreciated.--Loodog 04:32, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Just some random wikilove. :) Cheers! -WarthogDemon 03:37, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was doing some newpage patroling, and I wanted to tell you that you made a good start with Frank J. Williams. After all, everyone needs positive encouragement once in a while. Keep up the good work! —ScouterSig 06:09, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What a happy coincidence that you created the article the day before I got back from a recent trip to Rhode Island, right before I was going to upload the pictures I took in Newport in February. Funny how things work out here ...

I have expanded the article, brought it up to WP:NRHP standards a little bit, and now I'm going to list it for DYK (you'll get credit for creating it). Daniel Case (talk) 10:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you again for your work on this article (it took a while to decide what we should call it, but I'm satisfied with this name). I was able in my recent expansion to keep the picture; I have nominated it too for DYK, and included you in the crediting. Also good work starting the Munday and Isham articles too. Daniel Case (talk) 06:13, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Original Barnstar
		For the creation of Oldest buildings in the United States, which is a very good idea, I hereby award you this barnstar. Basketball110 My story/Tell me yours 02:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On 4 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bellevue Avenue Historic District, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Bedford 20:20, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Belated acceptance of your thanks, now that Flying Horse Carousel finally has a picture, the last of the RI NHLs from my trip there two weeks ago. I can now move on to expanding some of the newer ones, hopefully earning you and me more DYKs. Daniel Case (talk) 05:44, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you've been doing a number of articles about properties on the National Register of Historic Places, and I'm impressed that you've created so many articles. You've obviously been doing a lot of work.

I thought I'd mention that I have a copy of the National Register database loaded on my Web server, and I have some query tools that might be useful. From this site, you can find an infobox generator that generates the {{Infobox nrhp}} code for any given property, including the degree/minute/second coordinates for most properties (where they're published, anyway). I also have listing tools for cities and counties. You're welcome to use them if you're interested. Also, you're welcome to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. Again, good work on the articles! --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 04:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mr. SwampYank,

My friend, Woldhagen, is currently in jail on minor charges and would be thrilled (as soon as he's released) to see his name in the article on the Canon Ranch historic windmill. The information I added is accurate (except for the part about my friend being so handsome). Please leave it alone until he can see it. I'll personally remove it immediately as soon as that happens (couple more weeks, tops). Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheGonzoGoatRancher (talk • contribs) 10:16, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed you joined WP:NRHP. I know that you have created many nice articles and know your way around already. Glad to see you finally joined! :)

That's a nice pic you just added to your John N. A. Griswold House article. I just added more material to the article; as you see i kinda specialize in adding sources. Perhaps you'll find the NHL nomination PDF document, now linked, helpful in further developing the article. I eventually get around to adding that stuff to articles about NHLs, for which such PDF documents are usually on-line. Let me know if you ever want quicker service... :) Anyhow, keep up the good work! doncram (talk) 01:59, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have uploaded some really good photographs. I wanted to suggest that you consider uploading them to http://commons.wikimedia.org so that they can be used in all Wikipedias, including the English-language one. Once you've done so, you could add the pictures to the appropriate articles in each of the other languages without having to upload the image to each Wikipedia. --Eastmain (talk) 02:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the historical additions! jmcdaid (talk) 11:33, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When I was a kid living in Portsmouth, I would wait for the bus near the Historical Society. This old schoolhouse was in back. I have seen it hundreds of times. A little spooky to see it again... The Yodling Crosspicker (talk) 19:28, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see you are a libertarian SULS alumnus. Did you ever have Professor Rounds? DickClarkMises (talk) 21:52, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good to hear about the class with Prof. Rounds--I have Trusts with him in the fall. I was never able to find enough people to sign on as members of the libertarian group, but I managed to avoid that problem by becoming the president of the Federalist Society chapter. Since FedSoc bills itself as "Conservative/Libertarian" I guess we'll just focus on the latter at Suffolk. Mostly I just wanted the ability to reserve rooms in which to hold speaker events, so this will work just fine. DickClarkMises (talk) 22:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I love your image of the plaque marking Edgar Allan Poe's birthplace in Boston... it is much better than my version. I was wondering, however, why it wasn't uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org)? Media uploaded there can be utilized on all Wiki-projects, including other languages. Oh, and, if you feel like it, it might be worth cropping just a little bit off the left of the image to help center the plaque (but, hey, that's just my opinion). Keep up the good work here! --Midnightdreary (talk) 23:10, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You recently created the article Clark Cook House — indicating that it was in Newport, Rhode Island and is on the NRHP. However, when I search NRIS on Newport, RI, it does not appear. Can you direct me to the information via the NRIS link in the article? Thanks. — ERcheck (talk) 16:18, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like it's been removed from the National Register. I did a query by city and didn't find it, but when I queried by the reference number I found it. I had to recheck my copy of the database, where I found that it had the status "RN", meaning "removed from the National Register". The next question is, "why was it removed"? --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 19:22, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is the implication of "RN"? Is it no longer a "registered" site? If this is the case, why? — ERcheck (talk) 23:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the creation of the article on Theatre-by-the-Sea. I've tried to create an article about it, but no no avail. Thanks so much!68.226.93.158 (talk) 23:31, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Swampyank -- I know u created NRHP stub articles for many articles in RI, ME, and MA. I wonder if you could help, in a current focussed effort, to improve the NRHPs that are National Historic Landmarks, namely on List of NHLs in RI, List of NHLs in ME, List of NHLs in MA. Specifically, in a "Fourth of July, or bust" campaign, a bunch of us in wp:NRHP are trying to ensure that NHL designation date is included (with NHL summary webpage reference) in NRHP infoboxes for relevant articles. Also, I notice that you created some articles but did not add them to wp:NRHP, by putting the NRHP wikiproject, the state wikiproject, and reqphoto on their talk pages. Please know if you might be willing to help. I currently am working on another state, trying to stay ahead of a NHL-checking editor who is evaluating their quality, but we are getting to List of NHLs in ME soon! Cheers, doncram (talk) 04:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, i noticed u created articles for windmills, perhaps marching thru the list of red-links i had set up at List of windmills for the U.S. NRHP ones. I am flattered and pleased... and added my pic for one, the Iron Turbine Windmill, in AZ. cheers, doncram (talk) 17:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Fourth of July, or bust, Barnstar
		I award you this Barnstar for your solid, witty, creative, supportive, learned, timely, cheerful, eloquent, and/or otherwise generally great contributions on U. S. National Historic Landmarks' articles. Yippee o yay, we pretty much met our goal of a well-started article for each of 2,442 NHLs by today! Thanks, and have a great Fourth of July! -- Doncram, 4 July 2008

Hey, thanks for your many contributions of, or in, articles on NHLs in ME, MA, RI ! You and we done good, with creating 2,442 NHL articles, at various stages of development, by today! Thanks! doncram (talk) 18:54, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, it's REALLY shaping up. That's awesome. Well done, btw :). Aepoutre (talk) 17:49, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there! I wanted to hear your thoughts: I'm requesting that Lapham Institute be moved to the current redirect page Smithville Seminary. "Smithville Seminary" was not only the institution's original name, but the name it held the longest, by far. It's also the name used by the National Register of Historic Places, which I know you've done a lot of work with, as well. The article content is already set up to use Smithville Seminary as its primary designation; all that's left is to swap the article names. I'd normally consider it uncontroversial, but I know that you've also worked on this article quite a bit and I'd prefer not to be unilateral about things, haha. --Aepoutre (talk) 03:05, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great job keeping up with the NRHP listings / templates. I have been concentrating on the photos I have in Bristol County, Mass., but I have other counties also. I will have a "to do" list for the photos I do not have.

Do you know if there is any way to research if NRHP listings have been deleted? There is one mill in Fall River, Davol Mill, which I swear was on the list several months ago, but it's not now. It really belongs there. --Marcbela (talk) 17:07, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You can go here, enter each week, and search for "removed".--Appraiser (talk) 18:24, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks! Swampyank (talk) 20:26, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I tagged the most recent article. Aren't there guidelines for public history in your state? Ottre (talk) 00:04, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I have noticed that the website: Nationalregisterofhistoricplaces tends to have lisitings that do not appear in NPS.gov. Do you know if one is "more" correct than the other? Is it possible the nps database just isn't updated? It does not seem possible that so many listings were strickened from the register. --Marcbela (talk) 15:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Funny how we always seem to be working on the same places at the same time! I am now pretty much done expanding New Bedford Historic District, and I want to thank you for saving me the effort of creating Central New Bedford Historic District, because I realized we needed separate articles with hatnotes distinguishing the two, and we have them now.

After some touchup on the New Bedford ones, I'll be uploading a few more MA and RI pics, mainly ones I didn't upload earlier that I took in April. I also, as you may have noticed, tried to tone down the blown highlights on your pic of John N. A. Griswold House; I hope now it looks a little better. Since we have the RI NHL list fully illustrated, I think I may be writing some introductory text and putting in refs soon so we can take it to peer review and then, hopefully, FLC.

BTW, Northbound and Southbound Stations already exists as Attleboro (MBTA station) ... the address is different, but it's the same two buildings (and one of the pics I'll be uploading). I think we could just leave the one you created as a redirect.

Also, I really think that we ought to have a separate list for at least Fall River's RHPs ... it has 110 out of 358 in the county, about 30 percent. New Bedford and Taunton also deserve strong consideration for that, too, and maybe Attleboro as well. I haven't counted the entries for the latter two. Daniel Case (talk) 21:55, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know Taunton has over 100 entries too. --Marcbela (talk) 12:55, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi thanks for your work on starting these places. However is there a way you could rethink using the generic template and create more specific ones by county e.g List of Registered Historic Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts to connect article together within eahc county. This would be far more useful than the generic plate used in every article ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:40, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean or how to do it. Swampyank (talk) 20:43, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Create a navigation template at the foot of article containing all the historic places within that county as featured in the list. So every article you access within a given area they are directly connected ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thats cool you're of French Huguenot, English, Scottish and Swedish heritage the same as me, although I also have Jewish ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have to try to figure out how to create a navigation template and add one to the stubs I've created. Thanks for the advice. Swampyank (talk) 23:08, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think Blofeld of SPECTRE is not aware that you are marching through a list or lists of NRHPs, and the list-articles provide a lot of that navigational functionality. Navboxes (Navigation templates) are used more in some other wikiprojects, like wp:ships, though there are some on NRHPs within wp:NRHP. Personally i don't really like them in NRHPs. I think the state- or county-wide list-articles on NRHPs serve the same purpose better, accomodating short descriptions and, especially, photos.

About your many new NRHP articles, though, why aren't you creating corresponding Talk pages, at the same time, adding the articles to the state wikiproject and to wp:NRHP? The Elkman generator output even gives you a perfectly usable, properly formed copy of the basic Talk page material, ready to copy and paste into the talk page. And the articles do not appear in the wikiproject articles count, until they are added to the wikiproject by the Talk page entry. If you don't do it for each article as you go through a given county or state list, can you at least go back and visit all the articles and paste in the same basic starter, adding to wikiprojects, when you get to the end of any given list? Cheers, doncram (talk) 21:27, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Right, I'd rather go back and add talk pages at a later date. It seems more efficient to do the two tasks separately rather than copying the talk page text over and over again for each article. Those few seconds can add up to extra hours wasted if thousands of talk pages are created at the same time as the articles. In the meantime, some editors are adding talk pages before I get to them. Swampyank (talk) 21:41, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

However, given that several of your new articles are being put up for speedy deletion, i think you should stop creating new articles and go back and create all these Talk pages now. And put in Talk pages right away with all new articles. In my view it is fair for editors on new page patrol to be disturbed by the flood of stubs, and to put them up for speedy deletion. The multiple speedy deletion notices should give you pause.

Your making more effort with the new articles, including adding them to the appropriate wikiprojects, would help. I also suggest your adding a standard comment in the new Talk page (or perhaps in the article proper) about the availability of NRHP nomination text and accompanying photos by request to the National Park Service. Something along those lines would alleviate other editors' legitimate concerns about these articles. I mused about this in discussion of the Article-for-deletion on one of your articles below. I will post about this at wt:NRHP, please continue there. doncram (talk) 17:07, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(unindent) Just to let you know, I've invested some time in getting set up to use wp:AWB for semi-automated editing, and have just now applied it to visit the Talk pages of all 174 NRHP stub articles in "Category:Barnstable County, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs". I added them to wp:NRHP, added a reqphoto, and a bit more. It took me 70 minutes or so, working off the framework of the category. Only about 5-10 had wp:NRHP already. I asked for feedback at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Massachusetts and, after any discussion there, I will probably continue with the other counties in MA. This complements what you did stubbing just the articles, although there is some slippage relative to what you would have accomplished if you had done the talk pages as you went along or soon after. You probably processed through a few stub articles that already had photos and didn't need the reqphoto that i have now added (erroneously if there is already a good photo). And there are some articles which you started or processed that are no longer stubs or otherwise lack the Barnstable-NRHP-stub tag, and I would have missed any of those. There are 181 in the List of Registered Historic Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, and i processed 174, so i missed 7 and have no way to know which ones those are, and which could use some Talk page fixup. Anyhow, I think this is mostly addressing what I was focussing upon in our prior discussion. Any further comment or feedback at the wp:MA talkpage or to my page or at wp:NRHP would be welcomed. doncram (talk) 21:55, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to let you know, I've noticed the work you're doing on the various Historic District stubs, and I'm impressed. We need more nose-to-the-grindstone editors like you! S. Dean Jameson 17:04, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are creating articles using "an" where "a" should be used. --mboverload@ 20:41, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going back with AWB to fix em =) --mboverload@ 20:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info...it seems like quite the debate about "a" versus "an"...although both usages are common now according to this site Swampyank (talk) 20:54, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh...I'll stop. hmmm --mboverload@ 20:51, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to change them if you think it is more correct...I don't know too much about the specific usage beyond what google tells me. Thanks for monitoring the edits. Swampyank (talk) 20:54, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm getting from my research [1] as well as users of the EnglishForums IRC channel that "a historic" is the more correct version. I just don't want to step on your toes or push my view of what is correct. --mboverload@ 21:05, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, ok...I'll try to break my habit. Thanks! Swampyank (talk) 21:07, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I also went ahead and scanned Wikipedia for other articles with that in them. 6,077 articles to go... =) --mboverload@ 00:05, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ouch! Swampyank (talk) 03:01, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. This is interesting. I always change them to "an historic" when I see them. I'm sure that's what I was taught. That's how it is worded in the 1966 National Historic Preservation act.[2] This probably dates me; I suspect it's akin to "alot" becoming a word.[3] But I'll try to remember to stop changing them since it is now common usage.--Appraiser (talk) 15:20, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just a sec - not a problem or anything I might just have an idea for you. --mboverload@ 04:21, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you got a bot flag then your articles wouldn't show up in new page patrol. --mboverload@ 04:25, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know how to get one? Swampyank (talk) 04:27, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Creating a bot and/or automatically generating stub articles for NRHP sites has been discussed previously at wt:NRHP. As i recall, there wasn't a lot of support in the past, but things could be different now. One difference is that the basic output from the Elkman NRHP generator has been improved in various ways, since then, such as it now provides for Talk pages with wikiprojects and reqphoto, etc. (which could be included in the automatic article creation). You could look up the old discussion(s) in the archives, and open a new discussion there. doncram (talk) 19:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

After all my work out in RI and MA (hope you appreciated that), I saw you had started Major Jacob Hasbrouck Jr. House in my backyard, so to speak.

Well, I took a picture of it and just got done expanding the article (its nom form is 42 pages long! Lots of info). Take a look. I nominated it for DYK with you credited as well. Daniel Case (talk) 04:48, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for making this stub. I had noticed a few months ago that nothing existed yet. While my family has a long history within this community, my own involvement is indirect at best; I have access to plenty of anecdotal information, but providing independent verification is a challenge. I'll see what I can do to expand this article. Bill Holt (talk) 19:31, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe Rhode Island Historical Society is on the NRHP or NHL, so I've removed those categories. Perhaps it is a new listing though. So let me know if I should add back one of the categories. Thanks.--Appraiser (talk) 19:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Society's headquarter's Nelson Aldrich House and its main museum, the John Brown House are NHLs. I'm not sure if that would merit NHL categories in the article.Swampyank (talk) 17:47, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The two sites both have NHL infoboxes and the NRHP template and they are linked from the Society's article. I guess since the Rhode Island Historical Society is really an organization rather than a "property", the categories should remain off.--Appraiser (talk) 18:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can you go back to whatever source you used to determine the coordinates for the Providence Fruit and Produce Warehouse Company Building to check that you trascribed them correctly? The coordinates seem to point to the Nicholson File Company Mill Complex, which abuts Kinsley Avenue, rather than Providence Fruit, which is on Harris Avenue. I cannot find a usable source for the coordinates, or I would correct them myself. I have added a note to this effect on Talk:Providence Fruit and Produce Warehouse Company Building.Caldust55 (talk) 20:23, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I used Elkman's infobox generator. That's my sole source for the coordinates. Hope this helps.Swampyank (talk) 21:12, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Elkman's infobox includes coordinates from the National Register Information System (NRIS), but these are often a bit off. There are some outright mistakes. But, most of them are a bit off, because the coordinates system that was used in US Geographical Service quadrant maps was a bit off, relative to the current highly accurate GPS system used by Google maps and all other modern map systems. So, if you know the coordinates are off, you should feel free to correct them. I use the Google map system to get coordinates. There are useful links and tips on getting coordinates in a few places in wikipedia; i noted some links in wp:NRHPMOS. In this case, I hope either of you will use Google plus these tips and revise the coordinates. doncram (talk) 00:31, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful photos. The organization I work for is coming to Providence, RI for an annual meeting in April. Some of your shots would be perfect for our program (tours are going to Newport, Mystic Seaport, Blackstone River Valley, and many other places). How can I get permission to use these pictures? We would like to give you credit for them, so may we use your real name? Please email me at ncph @ iupui.edu. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iluv2dig (talk • contribs) 20:25, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! Great work with the historic places pages. Just wondering if you'd mind adding this template to the talk pages?

{{WikiProject National Register of Historic Places|class=}}

Thanks! -- Zanimum (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure no problem, I planned on doing them all at one after creating a few articles. Swampyank (talk) 18:23, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, good! I presumed you would be, but just in case, I thought I better suggest. Thanks! -- Zanimum (talk) 18:50, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I, too, like stubs, for exactly the reasons you mention. And yes, I will likely be adding on to this article in the near future. Have been doing lot's of stuff related to New Netherland, and feel pretty well-versed, so it's always a pleasure to get a juicy new tidbit like this. Thanks. Djflem (talk) 04:37, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fort Ninigret (and Dutch Island) are very interesting and their Dutch connection is a bit controversial. Good luck with your additions! Swampyank (talk) 04:50, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You and I got different totals for the NRHP sites in Middlesex County — my number was 1300, gained by piling all the listings into a list and putting a # before each one, so the total number would display. Did you use a different calculation device? Nyttend (talk) 05:43, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Swampyank, I saw in your note at Nyttend's talk page that you said Massachusetts "has the second most NRHPs of any state". I believe you, but I wonder what is your source for that, and/or if the source provides counts as of any date for other states. I just have not found any such source and would like to. Thanks! doncram (talk) 19:08, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding that category with the date of construction. Have a good evening. MarmadukePercy (talk) 03:15, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Again, many thanks. You're a very active wikipedia contributor, I know, in the New England area. I hope we can collaborate on things in the future. Enjoy your evening. Best,MarmadukePercy (talk) 03:41, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Swampyank. I'd like to work to improve the List of RHPs in MA, in part to respond to some indications of interest at some of its articles, and appreciate that you have done a lot on the state. I note there are list-articles which need Elkman-style tables, and there is wikiproject tagging to do, and so on. Perhaps we could coordinate about those and more, at Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Massachusetts? doncram (talk) 16:51, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just a reminder that the DEFAULTSORT markup uses a colon, not a pipe – for instance, {{DEFAULTSORT:Tower, Horatio, House}} not {{DEFAULTSORT|Tower, Horatio, House}}. —Paul A (talk) 01:30, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, that's my mistake, because my infobox generator was miscoded. I recently put in something that would apply the DEFAULTSORT keyword, but I made the error by using a pipe instead of a colon. I fixed that, but I suppose there are several thousand pages that need to be fixed now. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 02:17, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Just to let you know, I've replaced three of your pictures with ones by me here. It's not that I consider myself a better photographer - far from it. However, yours were a little cut off and I think it should be a priority to show the whole of a building, right? Anyway, if you have any objections, do let me know. - Biruitorul ^Talk 00:43, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine. I have no objections to adding more photos. Swampyank (talk) 18:27, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You've added a bunch of great articles, but can you please stop using Category:Architecture in all of them? It's a parent category which should have an absolute minimum of articles directly under it, as the articles should be put in as specific a category as possible. Otherwise every single building in the world would be listed under "architecture". That aside, keep up the good work. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Swampyank.
The picture you used at the top of the Union Village article has a caption indicating it is Peleg Arnold's "house", yet the JPG is "Peleg Arnold tavern". Are they one and the same, or what? Best wishes, Hamamelis (talk) 14:30, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they're the same. Swampyank (talk) 02:38, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Hamamelis (talk) 23:59, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. I noticed you'd contributed to this entry. I would like to go in and attempt to straighten out the grammar issues (considerable) from the previous poster's efforts and put it back in some semblance of readiblity, but I'm sure as soon as I do, she'll revert back. Hmmm... It gets discouraging with some of these entries, where one gets users who don't reply to messages left on their pages and who simply want to undo what's done. Ah well, I guess I'll try to figure a way around it. Just wanted to give you a heads-up on it. Thanks for your previous help. Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 17:54, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Swampyank,

I would appreciate it if you stop deleting my post about St. Paul's Episcopal Church. It is actually older than a few of the buildings listed on the page. It was built in 1736 in Edenton, which was then the capital of North Carolina. If you do not believe me, look it up yourself.

Your addition looked like vandalism on the page because of the lack of formatting and chronology. Also, the church doesn't seem like the oldest building of its kind in the state, so it probably doesn't belong on this list in my opinion. Swampyank (talk) 19:44, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Methuen, thanks. It is my intention of photographing those locations and adding more data to each WP entry. I think many of them are now unrecognizable, and it I am not mistaken several are gone. I know for certain there was a court case involving the demise of the house on Broadway. EraserGirl (talk) 19:14, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Question. I am trying to figure out what to do with the list of NRHP from Methuen, I didn't realize there was so many, and created a list in the middle of the Methuen article. Now that I see how many there are, I need to strip them off to their own subpage. Can you point out the standard formatting for this type of page? would it be a table like the County Lists? I don't want to do all that formatting wrong the 1st time. EraserGirl (talk) 03:13, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to talk to you. My name is Luke.

Seftinho (talk) 18:10, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, nice photo of the Thaxter house in Watertown. That sort of thing really perks up an article. Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 07:56, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Do you ever work with Multiple Property Submissions? I've just created a new directory page, WP:MPS, where these can be listed and more information filled in. If you want to edit there, please consider the second paragraph of the text at top. Nyttend (talk) 21:44, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not familiar with MPS. Swampyank (talk) 17:14, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I had to remove Loomis House from list because it's a redlink. You can add it back once you've created a page for it. I checked NRHP listings and couldn't find one for it, otherwise, I would have created a page from there. BTW, I played sports against Loomis Chafee, beautiful house/campus. Tomticker5 (talk) 12:06, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy notification: An article you have edited Daniel Stedman is currently under discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Stedman (2nd nomination). Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 07:16, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. I know you generally prefer separate historic district articles but I think in many instances, if an unincorporated village is designated a historic district, it's better if there is only a single article. Local considerations are probably crucial in this debate and your opinion on this would be helpful. Some of the recent discussions are at the talk pages of Wyoming, Carolina, and Hope Valley. Thanks. --Polaron | Talk 16:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nice additions to that list of burials, some eminent Puritan divines. MarmadukePercy (talk) 10:22, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. I caught it at about the same time. I'm not sure I understand why there wasn't an edit conflict...Jameslwoodward (talk) 15:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Greetings. A friend of mine lives in the Thomas Cook House. After I pointed him to the Wikipedia article he informed me that it was incorrect: The article claims it was constructed in 1850 but the house was constructed prior to that. The house existed at the 1850 census but the actual construction date is not known. I'm wondering if this may be a systematic error in the creation of these articles, i.e. a documented date being taken as a construction date. --Gmaxwell (talk) 18:21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is true that not all of the NRHP dates are exactly accurate to the year. Some of the dates occur when a significant event or renovation took place in the house's history. Other houses are difficult to date using records or dendochronology, so the build dates are often approximate, but for the vast majority of houses the contruction date is approximately accurate, but of course open to editing for those with further information. Hopefully this helps, and feel free to change any of my edits. Maybe it would be better to phrase it "built on or before" the NRHP date as a stub starting point. Swampyank (talk) 18:29, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes… I was thinking perhaps the pages should say "on or before". Is this something that would be acceptable applied in bulk to all of the pages like this which are still in their initial stubish form? --Gmaxwell (talk) 23:33, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your kind words. Let me praise your attitude toward stubs -- "Despite receiving several complaints about my brief NRHP stubs, I believe minimal stubs are better than nothing at all. The sooner the stubs are up, the sooner everyone can add to them. Feel free to drop me a message on the the talk page!" I agree entirely and have been stubbing out Maine Lighthouses along the same lines, thinking that creating a new article (particularly with the two infoboxes required for NRHP lighthouses) could intimidate some people. However, since I live next to Brookwood Farm, I decided to go a little farther than I usually go when adding photos. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 20:36, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Swampyank - You are doing an excellent job assembling articles on all these NRHP locations; thanks a lot! Could you take a look at Trinity Church (Holderness, New Hampshire)? It looks like the info you placed in that article actually was for Trinity Church (Cornish, New Hampshire). I corrected the coordinates and town name in the text and infobox, but I don't have the correct info for the architect and dates. Would you mind fixing those? Thanks again! --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:49, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The church is probably closer to the town center of Plymouth than it is to the center of Holderness, but it's within the Holderness town limits. Also, I found another one for you. County Farm Bridge (Wilton, New Hampshire) has data that belongs in County Farm Bridge (Dover, New Hampshire). Same problem with identical names but different towns. I could probably just move the article to the Dover name, but I don't want to mess up your workflow. Have a good one, --Ken Gallager (talk) 18:02, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. I think they're fixed, but feel free to correct or move any of my errors. Swampyank (talk) 04:01, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you for writing 4833 articles on Wikipedia! It must take a lot of time and effort to that. That is .156847956% of Wikipedia's articles!  Btilm  06:10, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you don't mind me asking, how do you create articles so quickly?  Btilm  04:13, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just use the Elkman infobox generator and copy and paste text. Thanks for the barnstar. Swampyank (talk) 04:14, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your new articles don't appear to have county categories; would you be willing to add them on all future articles? Nyttend (talk) 15:33, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just use the Elkman info. I could add quite a bit more per article, but it is probably easiest if they're added to the generator. Swampyank (talk) 17:10, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll look into adding county categories into the infobox generator. Most of the time, they'll be straightforward, but some of them (like parishes in Louisiana or independent cities in Virginia) might make things tricky. Also, I'm looking at classifying articles into categories based on their historic functions, like houses for anything listed as a single dwelling, and so forth. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 17:23, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, appreciate it. Swampyank (talk) 17:26, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Cuisine of New England. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit and is especially useful when reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. BMRR (talk) 20:31, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I'll try to avoid being lazy. Swampyank (talk) 22:16, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've said this before, but User:Sswonk and I are almost done with illustrating all of the NRHP sites in Quincy. I've just finished adding images to all of the articles for which I took them, and having your stub has made it a great deal faster. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 17:57, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your dedication to local history is admirable. The photos are great, too. :) BeantownTexas (talk) 23:24, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any particular reason you created this article with this name? If not, I'm going to have it moved to Ellen Swallow Richards House as

• that's the NRHP name
• "house" is more usual than "residence" for such.

. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 14:07, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No objections. Swampyank (talk) 15:33, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In an effort to create a navbox for urban parkways in the Boston metro area, I have come to the realization that what is really needed is something that ties together the entire system first envisioned by Charles Eliot in the late nineteenth century. I feel that this should be a cooperative effort, probably created as a subproject of WP:MASS. However, initially I am seeking comments and/or assistance from several editors that have contributed in various ways to elements of the scope of such a project. This note is being posted to the user pages of Beland, CaribDigita, Denimadept, EraserGirl, Grk1011, Hertz1888, Jameslwoodward, Markles, NE2, Polaron and Swampyank. I apologize in advance to anyone who wishes to comment that I have left off of the list of users, as I may have unintentionally forgotten them and others. Please feel free to comment on my talk page under the heading I have created, linked here. Thanks – Sswonk (talk) 05:57, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings - Just wondering what kind of image you were looking for of the Eureka Schoolhouse as I'm back in the area for a few days. Cheers H0n0r (talk) 16:19, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for posting the historical postcard/photograph of Newport Hospital taken from the southwest at the turn of the century. Would you please post more Newport Hospital photographs if you have them or point me in the right direction to find them? Again...thank you. Bradfordaugust (talk) 23:55, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I work for the Providence Community Library (http://www.provcomlib.org). We're a new organization that took over management of the nine former PPL branches on July 1st, 2009. I ran across your articles on Rochambeau, Smith Hill, South Providence and Wanskuck today. Very nice. I tried to update them to reflect their new status (switched out "Public" for "Community" removed references to "branches" as we no longer call them that (long story), and added photos for Rochambeau, South Providence and Smith Hill. Hope you don't mind. Thanks for starting these in the first place! If at all possible - could the titles be renamed to reflect the fact that these libraries are now part of the "Providence Community Library" and not the "Providence Public Library"? I don't have the appropriate level of access to do that yet. Thanks again! Ddvorchak (talk) 22:17, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The new names are pretty simple. It'd just be "Rochambeau Library - Providence Community Library", etc. Thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddvorchak (talk • contribs) 22:38, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're quite welcome for the edits. Thanks for your kind message. I'm actually hoping to expand this article in the near future. It's on my list... Historical Perspective (talk) 01:46, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Swampyank, i notice you active on the RI nrhp articles that happen to be on my watchlist from time to time. I wonder if you are aware that NRHP documents are now available on-line for almost all of CT, and I've been told they've all been scanned and are nearly on-line for RI, too. I wonder if you'd be willing to help improve some of the CT articles now, in particular by adding the NRHP doc to existing articles. As you know there has been running contention about NRHP HDs in CT, but (knock on wood) that seems to have settled down mostly, and in fact I believe that all of Fairfield County is settled. I've been adding NRHP docs to many articles as part of the process of bringing forward information, in a process coordinated now at a Talk subpage of Acroterion's. Anyhow, it is always helpful to add NRHP documents to NRHP articles, and I hope you might consider chipping in for List of RHPs in Fairfield articles and more. There's a related note by me at Talk:List of RHPs in CT#NRHP docs now available online for Connecticut. Cheers, doncram (talk) 19:54, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the information. Yes, I'd like to help add the NRHP doc to the articles. Unfortunately, I've been having some problems with PDFs on my computer though, so it might take me a while to be able to do so. Swampyank (talk) 20:27, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually i just noticed that you worked on National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Connecticut for a while in October. I was off-wiki for a while and wasn't particularly aware that you had. I see something else needed for those is to return and add Talk page info, so there are reqphotos on the articles that don't have pics, and so that they are included in appropriate wikiprojs (usually just NRHP and Connecticut, but also can be Trains, Bridges, or other). That would be a help, not requiring PDF reading.  :) I'm just generally interested in seeing the CT stuff move along to a better point. I do think you did very well with RI. --doncram (talk) 22:48, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it would be good to see an improvement in the Connecticut NRHP breadth and depth. I'll look around and see if I can add some more.Swampyank (talk) 23:20, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Yeah, I saw you had created that one a long time ago. I was going to drop you a note. Any personal connection to this one, like you had to the Major Hasbrouck House in New Paltz? Daniel Case (talk) 04:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, as you probably learned from the article Spencertown, like much of that region of New York, was largely settled by expatriate New Englanders (usually the second and third sons of successful farmers or merchants, who weren't going to inherit them but were often just as good at those fields as their older brothers) first right after the French and Indian War made it safe and then in earnest after the Revolution. They brought a lot of their building traditions with them, including those meetinghouses. Daniel Case (talk) 04:48, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings. I have reverted your edit to Bradford College. It is absolutely impossible for John Taylor Jones to have been an alum. Until 1970, Bradford College was a women's only school.THD3 (talk) 19:28, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OOPS. Nevermind. I forgot it was Bradford Academy during the 19th Century. I should have known better, I went there (but not during the 19th Century). I have reinstated Jones' name.THD3 (talk) 19:31, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clean-up -- I caught it about the same time you did. Next time, just drop me a note -- "Hey, doofus, you goofed," or words to that effect. No reason you should be cleaning up my multiple mistakes. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 21:15, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would just like to apologize for my edit[4] to Wellesley Town Hall. I did not realize that NRHP sites automatically are notible. Sorry any inconvenience I may have caused you.

Also, it's nice to see another New Englander editing Wikipedia after midnight. Allanlw 05:21, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was making some additions to an article you created: St. Michael's Church (New York, New York) when I discovered an older article St. Michael's Church, New York City. Do you know how to merge articles?AMuseo (talk) 14:44, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to let you know — you may want to spare yourself some work by not creating articles for churches in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches. Most of my recent on-wiki work has been creating DYK-size articles on these churches, so there should soon be articles on all of them even if you don't do anything. For examples, see my article on St. Henry's Church that I wrote last month, or the greatly expanded Holy Rosary Church article that I completely rewrote tonight. Of course, I'm not trying to tell you to stop if you don't want to; I just don't want you to work on something if you'd rather not expend the effort. Nyttend (talk) 03:43, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, I'll hold off. Swampyank (talk) 04:52, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The location of the church does not seem to match the title. The text seems to point to a church in Lexington, Kentucky, not Glasgow (my birthplace). What gives? - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 04:20, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll fix it. Sorry about that. Swampyank (talk) 04:21, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I created a category for the 'block' articles on NHRP in Massachusetts. Another editor objects to my category (and to the block articles themseles, blaming you for them/their names). Is there a more generic name for a category collecting these articles? Thanks Hmains (talk) 19:07, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe Hmains is referring to my comments at User talk:Hmains#Categorization. I'm inclined to nominate Category:Blocks on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts for merger into Category:Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts. --Orlady (talk) 04:18, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I created a drinking establishment category for the 'tavern' articles on NHRP in Massachusetts. Another editor objects to my category saying taverns are not drinking establishments. What is a better generic category name? Maybe 'hotels' to cover these and other articles. Hmains (talk) 19:03, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There's a CfD discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 April 4#Category:Drinking establishments on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts. --Orlady (talk) 04:15, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm having a bit of a discussion with another editor in Talk:History of education in the United States. I would appreciate having your opinion. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 11:32, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting new paragraph from an IP user. Entirely unreferenced. I'm torn between leaving it, as it's probably right and quadruples the size of a stub and deleting it on the grounds that we do like to have refs. I note you put it in the right place -- did you have any of the same thoughts? . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 21:44, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My thoughts exactly. A reference would certainly help. Feel free to delete it if you'd like. Swampyank (talk) 23:10, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]